I Went...SI--SI--SIRIUS...All The Way Home (again) #42

(a short jaunt)


"Ain't Nothing To Me" - Johnny Winter / "Still Alive and Well" (1973)
"Take your drink to the end of the bar buddy.
Come on, now don't be a fool.
I'd rather have the hot seat in Sing-Sing prison.
Than to sit down by her on that stool."

It would be three years before Johnny Winter was strong enough to record his appropriately titled album "Still Alive And Well" after barely surviving the clutches of his wire-walking heroin addiction.  Friends intervention...and a proper rehab stay brought Johnny back to the world.  It's my favorite album.  And this country-honed song might be atypical of what you've come to expect from JW...but it's as real as the forgotten cigarette burns on bar tables anywhere.  That's Rick Derringer pushing the pedal steel guitar.

"Just Crazy Love" - Fleetwood Mac / "Mystery To Me" (1973)
"Well you've just got something
makes a girl start feeling crazy."

Just follow the bouncing ball, will ya?  Christine McVie's bouncy "I'll give it to you.  Will you give it to me?" song is...Perfect!  (See what I did there?)  I love the Bob Welch era and between Bob and Christine ...the duo held Fleetwood Mac together...long enough to keep the band evolving rather than disappearing.  Which they surely would have done without Welch and McVie.  The runaway bass is stellar.  And when the fuzz-fuzz arrives...I'm sold.  This was Mac's eighth studio album. (OWN)


"Up and Down" - The Cars / "Panorama" (1980)
"Do you have to be so hard to get,
especially with those emerald eyes
You might have been a neon lover,
but you didn't have to advertise"

The industrial sound of The Cars was always pushy and relentless.  All about the energy.  No time for a breath.  And one of Ric Ocasek's really good ones.  This was The Cars' third studio album and was the very last song on the square.  I can't remember the last time I heard this song while I was driving, but I bet I was making tracks. (OWN)

"WILMA,  I'M HOME!"

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